Transmigrated To Another World: General, I'm Not Your White Moonlight - Chapter 53

Setting Up The Hydroponic System
Since Duan Yixin already said so, Tang Sanniu could only answer her question, “The first location is close to the mountain, and the price is lower. You can buy it for ten taels of silver per acre. Another place is close to the village and costs fifteen taels of silver per acre.”

Duan Yixin calculated in her mind that she would need at least two acres of land to grow corn and said, “I want to buy the land near a mountain. Village Chief, can you help me go through the purchase procedures?”

Tang Sanniu nodded and said, “No problem. We can go to the town tomorrow together.”

Thinking of her plan to grow seeds with hydroponics, Duan Yixin asked, “Village chief, can the land around my house be purchased together with the farmland?”

Tang Sanniu thought for a moment and said, “It should be possible. How about you ask the officer tomorrow when we visit the local magistrate’s office?”

Duan Yixin pondered for a second and said, “All right. So when are we going to the town?”

Tang Sanniu thought for a while and said, “We should go early so that the officer has time to measure the land. How about we meet at the entrance of the village at six o’clock tomorrow morning?”

“All right. Then I won’t disturb you any longer. Village chief, see you tomorrow morning.” After saying that, she and Chi Xinru left without even looking at Tang Zizheng.

After closing the door, Tang Sanniu saw his second grandson still staring at Duan Yixin and asked, “Why don’t you come in?!”

Looking at his grandfather’s angry face, Tang Zizheng sighed and followed his grandfather in with heavy steps.

After leaving the Tang family’s house, Chi Xinru and Duan Yixin separated and returned to their homes. When Duan Yixin approached her home, she saw Sun Dalang waiting for her at the door with a bullock cart filled with wooden buckets.

She walked up to him and asked, “Young Master Sun, have you been waiting for a long time?”

Hearing her question, Sun Dalang raised his head and said, “I just arrived. Let me help you move these buckets in.”

“Thank you.”

Duan Yixin opened the low wooden gate, and the two of them moved the wooden buckets into the woodshed. When Sun Dalang walked into the woodshed with a pile of wooden buckets in his hand, he was surprised to find that the woodshed was very clean. Typically, people don’t clean out woodsheds but just stack firewood to make more space.

Seeing him standing there looking around curiously, Duan Yixin said, “Young Master Sun, please put the wooden buckets here.”

Sun Dalang came back from his thoughts and said, “Oh, alright.”

With Sun Dalang’s help, they moved all the wooden buckets to the woodshed in only two trips. Seeing that it was getting late, Sun Dalang said, “Xin Niang, I’m going back first. If you need more wooden buckets, come to our house. We always have it in stock. ”

Duan Yixin nodded, sent him out, and said, “Thank you for your help today, Young Master Sun.”

Driving the bullock cart, Sun Dalang waved to Duan Yixin and left. Back in the woodshed, Duan Yixin took out the tools and materials needed to build a hydroponic system. She illuminated the woodshed with a candle and worked for hours to complete the hydroponic shelves.

Among the many hydroponic farming systems, she chose a drip irrigation system because it was easier for her to create using wooden buckets. With a drip irrigation system, she can build wooden buckets vertically to grow vegetables and strawberries. This will save her a lot of space and resources.

In addition to the space-saving advantage, a drip irrigation hydroponic system would give her the huge advantage of manually controlling and adjusting plant nutrients and moisture. With her knowledge and experience in herbalism and botany, this drip irrigation system is the best fit for her.

Because of the lack of technology in this world and the fear of being burned to death if she was found to possess the original Duan Yixin’s body, Duan Yixin chose the gravity-based dripping system. After a series of careful calculations and planning, Duan Yixin used small bamboo hoses taken from the warehouse to set up the dripping water.

An hour later, Duan Yixin wiped the sweat from her face with her sleeve and said, “Now that the basic watering system and planting space are ready, next is to prepare the nutrient solution.”

After resting for a while, Duan Yixin took out a large box from the warehouse and began to prepare a nutrient solution. Ten minutes later, she packed the remaining materials into the large box and returned it to the warehouse.

Looking at the large wooden barrel of nutrient solution in the corner of the woodshed, she thought, ‘This will be enough for at least a few months.’

Seeing that the basic preparations had been completed, Duan Yixin went to the well to fetch water.

Although the hydroponic dripping system is easy to build, the most important thing is not only the nutrient solution but also the water. Duan Yixin needs to adjust the pH of the water based on the type of seeds she wants to plant. Otherwise, the crop will yield only half as much as a normal harvest, or worse, the seeds will fail to germinate, and she will lose all the resources.

After the big wooden barrel taken out from the warehouse was filled with water, Duan Yixin was so tired that she leaned against the wall and gasped for air. She wiped the sweat dripping into her eyes and thought, ‘It seems that I can only continue tomorrow. This body is really too weak.’

Duan Yixin rested for a few minutes before she had the strength to walk back to the bedroom, holding the candle to illuminate her surroundings. Because she was so tired, she decided not to take a shower and only wipe her body with a wet towel before going to sleep.